MrEldritch

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by MrEldritch 7y ago
This kinda sucks, but what else are they supposed to do? It's already been established that any wildfires caused by their equipment will be their fault; cutting off power in case of potential wildfires would seem to be the only logical
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Then why the high-voltage warning stickers?
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
"Han unification" (deciding that Chinese and Japanese characters were 'basically the same' and could be represented with the same set of codepoints) was a terrible idea, yes, mainly brought from the Unicode foundation no
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
This is, in fact, the same principle behind how Vantablack works!
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Sounds kind of like what's described in Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming : http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
And exactly why does America speak English, when a few centuries ago it was filled with native speakers of many other languages that are now very rare today? Because the British Empire (and the Spanish and French empires) killed a great m
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I gotta say, I do hope Blue Apron survives. After all, if it goes under, who will sponsor the entire podcast ecosystem?
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Dominos has an online order tracker, so it ought to be possible to have this plugin recognize when an order is in fact complete.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
> lead poisoning Uh... leaded gasoline has been phased out since the '70s, despite being demonstrably better for car engines (no anti-knock agent as good as tetraethyl lead has yet been invented), precisely because the American mot
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
My father used to work for Intel, back in the '80s and '90s - he's mentioned this proposal before. Apparently this is not even remotely a new idea, and even back in the late 90s, they were expecting to have to move to this
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
People having naughty opinions, mostly.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I had to immediately turn off emoji conversion on Discord, because not only was it annoying, it was wrong - :) was invariably replaced with something that was very definitely the emoji equivalent of :D, and :D turned into what was unmis
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
In informal online writing, using full stops has become an optional choice, which means that using full stops requires that you choose to do so , which means that presumably you have something to communicate by that choice. Generally speak
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
The reason we don't get "ripped apart" during these ripple events is simply that spacetime is so stiff that even absolutely monstrous amounts of gravitational energy lead to only the tiniest distortions in spacetime geometr
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
>the most anyone could aspire to was making adventure games or flash stick figure games/movies back then. As a counterexample, I present: Homestar Runner. Also, Homestuck.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
It was also hugely loved among amateur artists and animators, which led to the creation of most of the vast array of creative works I enjoyed as a kid. I don't think I've ever quite gotten over my resentment at the tech community
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Here's a closer analogy: We're on the Titanic. It's sinking, probably, but it's still mostly possible to ignore it. Some very smart people have calculated that the lifeboats cannot possibly hold the weight of everyone ab
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
>I hope not, because I have been able to control the muscle voluntarily and it is still works after almost four decades. Oh, is that how the brain rumblies thingy works? Huh, I never realized most people couldn't do that.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
>that are nothing worth fighting for to begin with Frankly, air conditioning alone is worth fighting for. The wealth and comfort generated by our carbon-spewing economy is the greatest achievement in mankind's history - and develo
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Really? So three abstract concepts actually had a footrace? Or is it merely analogous to the concept of a footrace, as might be indicated by a word such as 'like'?
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Would you say they're considered harmful?
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Yeah, but that's completely politically infeasible. There's no way to get people to just stop using existing resources to improve their quality of life - or even to keep their quality of life at current levels - without any imme
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Among Tumblr users, the basic incompetence of @staff in constructing a functional website is legendary. I would not be surprised if the backend were far worse than you're supposing. The funny thing is, the incompetence of @staff is th
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
(I want you to know that I'm not downvoting you because this is a bad post, but rather, because I think this being greyed out would add excellently to the joke)
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
They took a useful thing that was providing value to people, and broke it for no other reason than to see how people reacted. I mean, it's not that unethical; that's a big word to be throwing around. It's just kind of a dic
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
As long as humans continue to exist in the physical world, take up physical space, and consume physical goods for food, shelter, and comfort, then manufacturing will be a critically relevant part of the economy.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Gil Kalai has been beating this particular drum/dead horse for decades at this point. Having read the paper, it seems pretty consistent with his previous work ... it all crucially hinges on the postulate that, somehow, noise will preve
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
No, they aren't. (That said, they're completely uninformative and I have no idea what the heck these tiny unlabeled ASCII graphs are trying to convey. The ability to draw a lot of | characters quickly, perhaps?)
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
When you open a container, you can see inside of it. When you open source, you can see the source.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Chuck Moore has always struck me as some kind of alien, not unlike the way stories about Von Neumann do - that this is a person who is, in his specialized field, capable of thinking in ways that I just can't, and achieving things that

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